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Monday, September 7, 2015

Bootleg Alert! Hasbro DEADPOOL (Red variant)

This is Loosecollector Customs. Where we put bootleggers in tight underpants, and give them a wedgie.

First, let's thank our friend, Jomar of Land Orys Toy Center for providing both figures we have today. Thank you dude!

This Deadpool was bootlegged like mad lately. He came in different colors (pic by Ultimatetoycollector1). Today we will be reviewing the red variant.

On all the pics, left side is the original item, right side is the bootleg. Note that it is a bootleg and not a factory overrun. A bootleg is an unauthorized copy of a legitimate item. Say, the bootleggers stole an official mold or recasted each part of the real thing and sold the copies for profit. Way to go guys!

At first glance, you can immediately notice the inferiority of the one on the right in terms of color quality, paint applications and overall "look". On hand, the bootleg also feels lighter, the plastic used is flimsy and overall, it has a cheap, shiny finish compared to the nice, matte of the legit one. For customizers, if you dremel the fake one, I advice to NOT sniff any vapor or dust off it. Might contain lead and is a helluva drug. Other differences are...

Rifle - has NO deadpool logo and is made of cheap, warpy plastic, if that's even a word.

Sword - it's like the Hulk chewed on it for a good while. The one we have are silver, but some of the bootlegs have the gold coloring too.
Pistol - almost looks like the real thing! The difference is almost unnoticeable. Well done lads.

If you are shopping for this specific Deadpool and you don't have an
original one in hand to compare, the best ways to spot the bootlegs are the missing rectangles on the back and unpainted leg holster buckles (at times for both, not always), warped swords and bendy gun with no logo. You see those, stay away.... unless you want to sniff some lead.

7 comments:

my bootleg got the rectangle on the back, golden handle swords, and a logo on his gun tho, only the paint was meh (just like the one shown here), it's an adequate stand in until next year when the movie hit the big screen, i guess, nice useful review, btw.

That has me confused too...I've bought a couple of them from China and checked this page to see if they're real or not, all signs point to it being real, the golden handles, swords a being straight, pouches being the right color, logo on the rifle, bluish silver paint, spacing on the black part of the legs,and rectangles on the back...either these are over runs or the bootleggers are getting better.

I live in China and I'm about to get around 32 marvel legends figure tomorrow. hope they are the real deal. they are xmen legends with juggernaut, masrvel spider-man with venom, marvel legends infinite series with thanos, infinite series with odin and the mojo series.